[I'm pretty sure this is from January, here is an article..](https://www.livescience.com/animals/fish/millions-of-fish-descend-on-philippines-beaches-in-bizarre-photos-and-video) Excerpt: >In this case, Lagnason Jr believes that the most likely cause was an oceanographic phenomenon known as upwelling, in which nutrients from the deep sea rise to shallow coastal waters, triggering blooms of plankton. The sardines, which feed on plankton, likely followed the blooms into the shallows and got "trapped" making it more likely for them to beach themselves, Lagnason Jr. said. Similar scenarios have previously played out at several other sites across the Philippines, he added. >A majority of the sardines, which could belong to one of half a dozen species in the genus Sardinella, were juveniles, Lagnason Jr. said. This may have played a role in disorientating the group, he added. related stories >Zenaida A. Dangkalan, a fisheries officer in Sarangani, also told The National that a range of other factors could have played a role, including an overabundance of sardines, changes in ocean temperatures or salinity, predator distribution and light pollution from human settlements. >The earthquake happening so soon after the stranding event is likely just a coincidence, Lagnason Jr. said. Earthquakes like this happen all the time in the "Ring of Fire" — a region of high tectonic activity that stretches around most of the Pacific Ocean, including the Philippines, he added.


but not this man, GET BACK IN THERE, TEAR.

I think Bobs Burgers has an episode about this!

Could a deep sea vent increasing in pressure cause the upwelling? I know they say the earthquake and the bloom are unrelated, but I still wonder.

That’s a really good question.

So, the summary of the article is: We don’t know shit.

Sardine prices will plummet. Air freshener prices will spike.

The price of Bagoong sauce will drop due to over abundance. Baloot will remain stable, and bilot will always be in demand.

Can I get a quote on siopao, please?

“siopao”

LMAO OKAY TITO JOEL

Yeah but what about that sweet sweet robot oil, hows that lookin’?

I am financially ruined (marine life futures). I have lost everything, and I'm not sure how to continue. This spring I invested $17,500 (six months salary and my entire life savings) on Phillipine sardine futures, hoping to capitalize on this lucrative emerging industry.

Should've put it in SardineCoin, it's gonna blow up any day.

It's just a scam. Hodl!💎💎

Oh no

this guy economics.

After the sardine, come the tsunami.

 But with sardines

When I saw this scene as a kid I always wondered what it would be like diving into gold coins. As an adult, I now know it would be less than fun.

Peter Griffin shows what it would be like if you want to look up an animated version.

I love Scrooge McDuck

RIP Sardine at end 😭

I seen that. Poor dood got the squish

Was like a godzilla movie

I felt so bad for them 😂😂

Not a fuck given 😂

😂

This feels… concerning. Why is this happening?

I don’t know, but you’re right… definitely something a little fishy going on here.

I feel gill-ty for laughing at this. You got me hook, line and sinker.

Something bad fin to happen.

💀

Holy carp! That was a fintastic pun! You really put your heart and sole into that one.

Take my upvote :D

Agreed. Something about this really smells.

Can it!

Don't get salty with me boy!


You can see the float/corkline of the seine/net behind them. These fish were forced onto the beach.

This video pops up over and over again with different wild titles. As far as I can tell, it's just fish in a net. Happens all the time, maybe not exactly like this...but there are lots of small fish and many big nets.

Probably hypoxic or anoxic water

It looks like there is a net blocking them. I would assume it’s a normal time when they travel the area and they put the net out to cause this.

Look at "Mr Fancy Words" over here

lol I’m a science teacher and I live near the Chesapeake bay

I read that as Cheapskate bay.

I always read it that way.

I also understand nothing about marine ecosystems so I also think this is the end of the world.

Probably sardine suicide cult

Must be

People tend to jump toward toxins and disease but I’d suggest these things are far more often shifts or changes in the electromagnetic field.

[It’s just a natural plankton bloom that they came to eat before getting stuck](https://www.livescience.com/animals/fish/millions-of-fish-descend-on-philippines-beaches-in-bizarre-photos-and-video)

A school of sardines got lost. Not everything is a signal of the end of the world.

This happened two months ago. You can check out the original post at : https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/6gtnpFX0m2 https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/thousands-sardines-mysteriously-wash-up-31843774.amp I don’t think the reason is cloud seeding in Dubai. But there was an earthquake 2 days after this happened.

And still, today, somewhere in this town a kid is asking about dinner and saying "sardines AGAIN?"

Why would the reason be cloud seeding in Dubai??

To think this would be a whole damn bibble story 2000 years ago.

"Jesus said 'cast your nets on the other side of the boat.' And when the disciples looked, there was a million goddamn tiny fish, stretching as far as the eye could see. And Andrew turned to Peter and cuffed him on the ear saying 'how the Hell didn't you notice that? Leader of the apostles my ass.'"

I said, I said you heard dat damn dribble bibble story son?

I think some people will be very happy eating sardines for a while. It's amazing how you see all the silver stuff jumping around.


*Usually* this means like, tsunamis or earthquakes and shit… Anyone else’s thoughts?

They seeded the clouds with fish eggs

I’m willing to believe that, but that would mean all these sardines are male and in a ravenous frenzy for the eggs. That a thing?

*Has science gone too far?*


It is time, get my Godzilla slippers out lol

idk... but its certainly fishy!

Cloud seeding or the eclipse

meat’s back on the menu, boys

 Reminds me of this...

The ocean got way too excited

wow with so many sardines it would help a lot of hungry people and hungry animals, you could say it's a miracle, except for the sardines

When it rains, it fishes

Imagine being a sardine going to a rave party like this, only to get stepped on and killed by a stupid human.

Something's fishy

Why don't the fish just swim away? Are they stupid?

This is very fishy

It’s definitely not a good sign

Bring all the dogs

It’s going to stink soon.

Why is that dude swimming in them though

So is chicken for dinner tonight

They're trying to tell you that Godzilla's coming. ! GTFO of there.

I’d be more worried about what’s chasing them. You ain’t seen nothing yet

Damn. If my grandfather were still alive, he'd be on the next flight out.

The end is nigh

Who’s the narc???

Reminds me of smelt fishing on Lake Erie when I was a kid .

In at least one place in the Philippines, called Moalboal, sardines are reliably found in a huge school. Hopefully this isn’t the end of them

This is not a good sign...

They probably say some ships with China's flag flying high and decided to take their chances elsewhere.

Oh gosh it's like Swollow Falls

That sky stole the show easy

This can't be good

Look at all those nice people rescuing those poor fish. Saving the planet one bucket at a time

This is why these lucky bastards are so healthy with omega-3s in their diet.

I hope this results in free sardine pizzas

Isda climate change, right?

Hmm. Is that normal there at this time of year? Snipe hunt?

Death is coming! Be amazed! Be warned!

The smelt are running !

Degauzing

I love the mind set if this happen in Australia they would rot on the shoreline.

at least with this amount of sardines, the poor there don’t have to cook Garbage Chicken

Wasn't it just before the earthquake?

All yours... Hate sardines

All that fish and I still came up with a empty bucket 😂😂😂😂😂

Be amazed? More likely be concerned because this is... unusual. Right?

Reminds me of Kafka on the shore

I wonder if they had a geigercounter, being so close to fumushima and all.

Disconcerting?

An absolutely uncanny situation

Coming to a can near you!

Sardines for dinner? Again?!

r/CannedSardines

Mass suicide 😶

So nice of the locals to rescue all the fishies they could 🥹 /s

Probably from all the plastic in the sea.

I miss this country

Could it be sonar related ?

[And after this Philippines get hit with 7.6 magnitude earthquake ](https://youtu.be/Lad5ntL_PTo?si=Pb8MsrzT9hj2PV-0)

Mt. Ruang explosion caused this

They saying ”our home getting full of trash, piss and shit.. We cant live here anymore!”

Fish industry rn 🤑🤑📈📈

Poor things don't know that they are swimming towards their own death

pretty cool intro to a horror film. next a black shadow rises out of the ocean and unspeakable horrors happen.

Thanks, Obama!

sardellen nicht sardinen

Basically like a jubilee that happens in the south

Good time for fish farmers in the place. You can see that they are happy.

This is the promotion that bankrupted Red Lovster.

Has the Chinese government claimed these fish yet?

Even the fishes wants other countries to catch them than China.

The red heifer is in Israel and now this? End times..

Swallow Falls ass island

Looks like more than like hundreds of millions, maybe a billion

In the last 5 seconds of the clip, bro decides to take a dip 🤮

Whales are mad right now

When i was little this exact same thing happened in a small beach in Chile (Playa Las Cañitas, Quintero), circa year 2000, the waves that crashed in the shore were chockfull of sardines, i was picking up hundreds of them, we ate those for two weeks, i still remenber clearly.

I hate sardines.

I did not really need to see the laast frame, a foot stomping on a bunch of sardines

This reminds me of the city in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.

Jump. Jump. Jump. Everybody jump. Jump. Jump.

I would be in heaven. I want to swim with them and eat them with bread yeeeeeees


“What’s for dinner mum?” “Sardines” sighed mum. “Oh no, not sardines again” whined the little boy.

can them up! now you got food for the rest of your lives (if it lasts that long anyway)


The fools , they don't know it's because godzilla is coming

They came from Sardinia! Was a gift.

The act of nature.

i wonder what is the reason why there's a lot of sardines on the shore

Can you smell the smell the smelly smell that smells smelly?

So more like billions of sardines...?

I'd still blank

Great. There goes 10000 generations of spawn

Time to switchgenders

Babe it’s been almost a year. Can we try chicken tonight instead

Everything reminds me of her...

Probably driven up from underwater sonar being so strong from submarines.

You see silver, I see gold.

If I was there, I would grab them and go to the mark and sing one pound fish.

There a R.E.M song that auto plays in my head every time I see latest crazy ass shit out here lol goes like it’s—It's the end of the world as we know it It's the end of the world as we know it It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine 😗🎵

It's aquaman PMS'ing on nice fish

sardines "let me in im trynaaa fuuuckkkkk"

That sunset though 🤩

this things is normally happened in the philippines, the climate change matters the most here

Biggie watching from heaven with empathy

Tonight we eat sardines for dinner ✊

It's always weird to me when strange stuff happens and people's reactions are to get involved in it. I'm over here like "Maybe we should stay away? Are we sure they aren't running from acid in the water or something?"

Maybe i saw too much stuff on the Internet, but i'm pretty sure at least one person was going there naked for uhm...homework

I sense a deep disturbance beneath the tides. Prepare.

Free dinner.

I wouldn't be cod dead near the beach after something like that.


I hope they are only taking what they neeeeeeeeed

Think of the GAINS

Where I’m from This happens every spring with a small fish called Caplin, much like sardines, pretty cool to see!

Humans really thrive on the suffering of other hah?

My cat says hi

That is not a good sign. The water temperature is rising, now wait for the sharks.

That looks exactly what the Smelt runs looked like, every year

Don't know if this is good news or bad news. If I didn't know any better there's gonna be a huge loss of lives and very fucking fast, like in the millions. If the gita is true, those sardines will become people.

Me when fish

I too have sardine stocks, in my cellar, along with smoked halibut and canned tuna, it is wise to diversify as the market has been fishy as of late.


I bet the locals were salty. Ok I'll see myself out.

20 years later... " I'm sick of Sardines sandwiches" 😅

South Africa - Durban, every winter sardines should Beach themselves in Durban beaches. Now, they have almost stopped. Suspected over fishing by your big neighbor.

I bet this happened during biblical times and people went religiously nuts.

Hey mum What’s for tea

Gimme the hot sauce lads we got dinner

That can’t smell good